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Phrygia

In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.

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Phrygia was an ancient kingdom located in what is now central Turkey during classical times, centered around the Sangarios River. It matters as an important part of ancient Anatolian history and civilization in that region.

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Country.conventional_long_name: Kingdom of Phrygia
Country.common_name: Phrygia
Country.era: Iron Age
Country.government_type: Monarchy
Country.year_start: 1200 BC
Country.year_end: 675 BC
Country.life_span: 1200–675 BC
Country.event_start: Bronze Age Collapse
Country.event_end: Fall to the Cimmerians
Country.p1: Bryges
Country.p2: Mushki
Country.p3: Hittites
Country.s1: Cimmerians
Country.s2: Lydia
Country.image_map: Turkey ancient region map phrygia.gif
Country.image_map_caption: Map of the Phrygian Kingdom at its greatest extent, .
Country.capital: Gordion
Country.common_languages: Phrygian

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Contents

Geography
Origins
Legendary ancient migrations
Phrygian language
Recent migration hypotheses
Relation to their Hittite predecessors
Relation to Armenians
History
Peak and destruction of the Phrygian kingdom
As a Lydian province
As Persian province(s)
Under Alexander and his successors
Celts and Attalids
Under Rome and Byzantium
Culture
Religion
Matar Kubeleya
Other deities
Music
Phrygian cap
Mythic past
Jews of Phrygia
Christian period
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; , Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.

Stories of the heroic age of Greek mythology tell of several legendary Phrygian kings: Gordias, whose Gordian Knot would later be cut by Alexander the Great Midas, who turned whatever he touched to gold Mygdon, who warred with the Amazons